The story involves a young orphan girl (Dakota Blue Richards) who, with the aid of a magic compass, sets out to find two friends who have been kidnapped, for nefarious reasons, by the Magisterium.

NEWYORKER: The Golden Compass

Instead, pick any point on the compass and strike out uptown, downtown or cross-town to find an altogether more authentic slice of city, along with plenty of evidence that keeping cool in summertime New York is far from thirsty work.

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It utilizes a phone's digital compass, and read out the direction the user is facing, something that is apparently very important when navigating through public transport, while the audio component opens up Google Map features in a non-visual way.

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On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.

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Mr Davis has a compass and it is pointing him out into clear blue water.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The makers of "Compass" might want to check it out.

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Like most gains in the sector, these are new outsourcing clients, rather than coming out of the hides of big rivals Compass Group, which is also doing well, and Sodexho Alliance.

FORBES: Another Look

Later came intensive memorising of the star-compass, a circle of coral pebbles, each pebble a star, laid out in the sand round a palm-frond boat.

ECONOMIST: Mau Piailug

It might sound like something straight out of a Harry Potter movie, but a mysterious piece of rock salvaged from a 400-year-old wreck might turn out to be a legendary Viking "Sunstone" -- an ancient solar compass.

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Compass chairman Neal Lawson told the BBC the group's proposal was "to try and find a way out of this mess".

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